This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for a lot more than 100 years. The task of British clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it explains the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident from the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, direct lines-are the lowliest of styles, and where guys may have a variety of sides, depending on their public status. Through unusual occurrences that provide him into connection with a bunch of geometric forms, Square provides travels in Spaceland (three measurements), Lineland (one aspect) and Pointland (no sizes) and eventually entertains thoughts of going to a property of four proportions– a innovative idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the writer, Flatland isn’t only fascinating reading, it really is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the idea of the multiple measurements of space.